December 2: Ho Chi Minh City

The flight, in total, took about 18 hours in the air. Having left Phoenix on the morning of December 1st, we arrived in Vietnam about 10pm on December 2nd. It's a crazy Asian time warp. Amazingly well-rested, we easily sorted ourselves out in HCMC's modern airport, exchanged some money, and took a cab to our pre-arranged Indochine Hotel. Even as a budget traveler, I still firmly believe in the virtues of having a decent, comfortable night's sleep when first arriving in a country after a long flight. For $28 dollars, the Indochine was more than affordable, and tidy enough to fulfill our "luxury" requirement. Naturally, then, it was off to the famed rooftop bar at the Rex Hotel where we enjoyed our first Tiger beers with a cool photographer from Montreal named Alex. The rest of the rooftop was pretty much empty, but the beers were cold and I was able to catch the Tottenham match on TV. Eventually, the three of us landed ourselves at another bar called Apocalypse Now where we had a few more Tigers on the back patio, thoroughly enjoying our first night in Vietnam.

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